Joel Spolsky just posted on a new high school being opened in NYC that will concentrate on creating software engineers! What a great concept and it’s totally awesome that it will become reality! If universities can’t change their CS curricula to keep up with the rapidly changing field of software development, then hopefully this high school will be the antidote! A very exciting development!

Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional is a new SKU in Visual Studio 2010. The tool Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) within it is a great start but notoriously buggy as it is a first release. So when you install Test Professional you will want to make sure you get ALL the updates and service packs to eliminate a lot of the bugs. These steps are based on this post from Microsoft.

Soooo, here’s the order you should do things:

Install the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 that was released on 4/12/2010. You can get this at msdn.com through your MSDN subscription.